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“He wasn't a great man, but he had a great life.”

Inspirational Memoir Biography Trekking Mountaineering Nepal Adventure Travel Himalayas Sherpas Sir Edmund Hillary

Book:Light in the Mountains -- A Hoosier Quaker Finds Communal Enlightenment in Nepal

Source: Light in the Mountains -- A Hoosier Quaker Finds Communal Enlightenment in Nepal

“A dim sun shines faintly through the clouds. I gaze up at the mountain I must climb, then lower my eyes to look at my trembling legs. My legs are fragile but my spirit remains undaunted. Step by step, I will traverse upward. I will be there.”

Inspirational Quotes Quotes Motivational Quotes Trekking Mountain Climbing Everest Mountain Quotes Sherpas

Book:Our Nepal, Our Pride

Source: Our Nepal, Our Pride

“You can solo-climb Everest without using oxygen or you can pay guides and Sherpas to carry your loads, put ladders across crevasses, lay in 6,000 feet of fixed ropes, and have one Sherpa pulling you and another pushing you. ... The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won't happen if you compromise away the entire process.”

“The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.”

Important Play Facts Roles Summit Mountaineering Expeditions Ridges Sherpas

Author:Edmund Hillary

“Wise man is a good Sherpa; he takes you to the highest places!”

Men Wise Highest Sherpas

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“June [Hillary] had been doing all these things - the Himalayas and all the rest of it - so we had done things together for a long time, and, particularly as far as our Sherpas were concerned, we had a very sound, I think, philosophy. So that made it very easy for us to agree on what should be done.”

Thinking Should Long Made Done Philosophy Together Easy Sound Long Time Concerned Agree Made It June Himalayas Sherpas

Author:Edmund Hillary

“I would like to be remembered for the schools and hospitals and bridges and all the other activities that we did with the Sherpas. Unquestionably, they are the things I feel that were the most worthwhile of everything I was involved in.”

Feels School Involved Activity Bridges Remembered Hospitals Worthwhile Sherpas

Author:Edmund Hillary

“I still think have this deep desire for our Himalayan Trust - that we raise the necessary funds, that we do all the things that the Sherpas want us to do, and I would like to see us working together with them on these projects. Even though I'm old and decrepit I still have this strong feeling that I would like to carry these things out if it were still possible.”

Ifs Thinking Want Stills Feelings Together Desire Strong Projects Raises Working Together Fund Want U Strong Feeling Decrepit Deep Desire Sherpas

Author:Edmund Hillary

“The librarian isn't a clerk who happens to work in a library. A librarian is a data hound, a guide, a sherpa and a teacher. The librarian is the interface between reams of data and the untrained but motivated user.”

Happens Teacher Library Guides Data Motivated Users Librarian Clerks Interfaces Hounds Sherpas

Author:Seth Godin

“Kids didn't have huge backpacks when I was their age. We didn't have backpacks at all. Now it seemed all the kids had them. You saw little second-graders bent over like sherpas, dragging themselves through the school doors under the weight of their packs. Some of the kids had their packs on rollers, hauling them like luggage at the airport. I didn't understand any of this. The world was becoming digital; everything was smaller and lighter. But kids at school lugged more weight than ever.”

World Littles Kids Age School Saws Doors Huge Becoming Weight Digital Packs Bent Airports Lighters Luggage Sherpas

Book:Prey

Source: Prey

“What's required is a kind of social media sherpa, who can find you the audience you seek, who can reach to them on the platforms where they are already congregating, and who can help promote in tasteful ways that fit the sensitivities of the networks where your audiences are found.”

Way Kind Helping Found Social Audience Media Fit Social Media Platforms Sensitivity Sherpas

Author:Chris Brogan